IUCN/SSC - Caprinae Specialist Group
Welcome to the web site of the Caprinae Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
The IUCN CSG includes experts on the ecology, behavior, taxonomy, conservation and management of wild Caprinae (wild sheep, goats, rupicaprinae, muskox and allies) from around the world. Our goals are:
- Promote the conservation of Caprinae and their habitat
- Promote research on all aspects of Caprinae biology, including the conservation of mountain ecosystems
- Provide advice on the biology and conservation of Caprinae to governments, NGOs and researchers
| Argali rams and domestic sheep, Inner Mongolia. Photo by Liling Zhang Competition with domestic livestock and poaching are major threats to conservation of mountain ungulates in Asia. Disease transmission from domestic sheep and goats is a worldwide threat to wild mountain ungulates. |
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The IUCN Caprinae Specialist Group is chaired by Marco Festa-Bianchet of the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. See the membership list. The CSG has an executive committee, a working group on Taxonomy and one on Wildlife Diseases.
Statement on special auction permits to hunt Caprinae (1996)
Statement on trophy hunting of Caprinae (2000)
Statement on introduced (exotic) wild Caprinae (2003)
Pictures of the world's Caprinae: Sheep, goats, rupicaprinae, ovibovinae etc.
IV WORLD CONGRESS ON MOUNTAIN UNGULATES
Munnar (Kerala), India, September 12-15, 2006
The 5th
World
Congress on Mountain Ungulates was held in Granada, Spain, on November
10-14, 2009.
Workshop on Caprinae taxonomy, Ankara, Turkey, May 2000
A summary of the discussion is here , including details about the Taxonomy Working Group.
speakers and topics
Caprinae News, our newsletter, is published about at least once each year, depending on material available. Submissions for consideration in the newsletter are welcome from any biologist or conservationist working on Caprinae. Please send submissions to the Editor, Dr. David Shackleton, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z4
FAX: +1-604-822-4400
May 2001 NEWSLETTER
LINKS
European Alpine
ibex specialist group
Alpine ungulates research projects
Nilgiri tahr
website
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